James Swindal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Swindal |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Swindal |
| SIGNATURE | SWINDAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Phenomenology of Embodiment in the Theological Turn in French Phenomenology
The Theological Turn in Phenomenology, as represented in works by Chrétien, Levinas, Ricoeur, Marion, Henry, Falque, Lacoste, and others, is not a formal philosophical movement, but a collective set of insights into how revelation and phenomena interrelate. It has made a significant contribution to phenomenological reflection and has accomplished not only a further opening into how Scriptural and spiritual examinations by Catholic philosophy and …
Can a discursive pragmatism guarantee objectivity
Robert Brandom and Jürgen Habermas both agree that all theoretical and practical determinations are normative affairs. But what grants this normative order the power to be objective? While Brandom assumes that ever new appeals to reliable perceptual judgments and inferentialist determinations eventuate objectivity, Habermas thinks that such an objectivistic presumption fails to sustain a thoroughgoing critique of norms. He insists that Brandom’s …
Can Strategic Reasoning Alone Account for the Formation of Social Norms
Joseph Heath's Communicative Action and Rational Choice stands out clearly as one of the most astute and original of the several critiques of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to have emerged in the last decade. Heath refrains from engaging merely in skirmishes with various details of Habermas's theory; he rather aims directly at its core issue: the critique of instrumental reason. Heath argues that Habermas's key criticism—that in…
Critical Theory
Discourse, reflection and commitment
In response to William Rehg’s and Barbara Fultner’s criticisms, I clarify and extend some arguments found in my book Reflection Revisited. I first redescribe how Hegel’s critique of Kant’s theory of reflection opens up the possibility for an intersubjective reflection. Habermas, I argue, can exploit such a theory of reflection since it is immune from the problems attendant on a ‘theory of consciousness’. Second, I address how by means of meta-dis…
Jürgen Habermas
New Threats for Freedom
Reconstructing the enlightenment project
Etude de l'oeuvre philosophique de D. Rasmussen qui, repensant le droit et la societe a partir de la phenomenologie, de l'hermeneutique et du marxisme, s'inscrit dans le contexte nord-americain d'une emancipation de la theorie sociale critique apres Horkheimer. Examinant le projet d'une hermeneutique critique fondee sur la notion kantienne de raison constitutive et sur la notion hegelienne de raison transformative, l'A. montre que la pensee de Ra…
Tragedy and the free spirits
Analyse de la triple opposition qui fonde le diagnostic de la modernite etabli par Nietzsche dans «La naissance de la tragedie»: 1)l'opposition entre liberte et verite, 2) l'opposition entre l'affaiblissement de l'art et la justification rationnelle, 3) l'opposition entre la culture artistique et la culture socratique
The problem of problematization in discourse ethics
L'ethique de discours de Jurgen Habermas ne propose pas une conception fiable de la problematisation de la norme suscitant le besoin de discours. Or, ses procedures discursives ne reussisent pas a specifier le bon moment pour s'engager dans un discours. L'A. etudie quelles sont exactement ces conditions sine qua non pour la production du discours
Can a discursive pragmatism guarantee objectivity
Robert Brandom and Jürgen Habermas both agree that all theoretical and practical determinations are normative affairs. But what grants this normative order the power to be objective? While Brandom assumes that ever new appeals to reliable perceptual judgments and inferentialist determinations eventuate objectivity, Habermas thinks that such an objectivistic presumption fails to sustain a thoroughgoing critique of norms. He insists that Brandom’s …
The problem of problematization in discourse ethics
L'ethique de discours de Jurgen Habermas ne propose pas une conception fiable de la problematisation de la norme suscitant le besoin de discours. Or, ses procedures discursives ne reussisent pas a specifier le bon moment pour s'engager dans un discours. L'A. etudie quelles sont exactement ces conditions sine qua non pour la production du discours
Tragedy and the free spirits
Analyse de la triple opposition qui fonde le diagnostic de la modernite etabli par Nietzsche dans «La naissance de la tragedie»: 1)l'opposition entre liberte et verite, 2) l'opposition entre l'affaiblissement de l'art et la justification rationnelle, 3) l'opposition entre la culture artistique et la culture socratique
Reconstructing the enlightenment project
Etude de l'oeuvre philosophique de D. Rasmussen qui, repensant le droit et la societe a partir de la phenomenologie, de l'hermeneutique et du marxisme, s'inscrit dans le contexte nord-americain d'une emancipation de la theorie sociale critique apres Horkheimer. Examinant le projet d'une hermeneutique critique fondee sur la notion kantienne de raison constitutive et sur la notion hegelienne de raison transformative, l'A. montre que la pensee de Ra…
New Threats for Freedom
Jürgen Habermas
Discourse, reflection and commitment
In response to William Rehg’s and Barbara Fultner’s criticisms, I clarify and extend some arguments found in my book Reflection Revisited. I first redescribe how Hegel’s critique of Kant’s theory of reflection opens up the possibility for an intersubjective reflection. Habermas, I argue, can exploit such a theory of reflection since it is immune from the problems attendant on a ‘theory of consciousness’. Second, I address how by means of meta-dis…
Critical Theory
Can Strategic Reasoning Alone Account for the Formation of Social Norms
Joseph Heath's Communicative Action and Rational Choice stands out clearly as one of the most astute and original of the several critiques of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to have emerged in the last decade. Heath refrains from engaging merely in skirmishes with various details of Habermas's theory; he rather aims directly at its core issue: the critique of instrumental reason. Heath argues that Habermas's key criticism—that in…
Can a discursive pragmatism guarantee objectivity
Robert Brandom and Jürgen Habermas both agree that all theoretical and practical determinations are normative affairs. But what grants this normative order the power to be objective? While Brandom assumes that ever new appeals to reliable perceptual judgments and inferentialist determinations eventuate objectivity, Habermas thinks that such an objectivistic presumption fails to sustain a thoroughgoing critique of norms. He insists that Brandom’s …
The Phenomenology of Embodiment in the Theological Turn in French Phenomenology
The Theological Turn in Phenomenology, as represented in works by Chrétien, Levinas, Ricoeur, Marion, Henry, Falque, Lacoste, and others, is not a formal philosophical movement, but a collective set of insights into how revelation and phenomena interrelate. It has made a significant contribution to phenomenological reflection and has accomplished not only a further opening into how Scriptural and spiritual examinations by Catholic philosophy and …
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